22 financial services firms that will hire you in the second quarter

We're moving into the second quarter. Needless to say, this is the time of year when people in banking traditionally swap jobs after being paid a bonus. If you're in this situation, or if you want to move to a new job after being paid no bonus at all, you may be interested in the list below. This contains all the firms which have declared (or occasionally indicated) a propensity to hire between now and June.

1. Coming jobs at Bluecrest Capital:

Who's Bluecrest hiring? Bluecrest never discusses its hiring plans. However, based upon past performance it will almost certainly be poaching traders from investment banks. UBS has been a recent favourite.

2. Coming jobs at BNP Paribas CIB:

Who's BNP hiring? BNP Paribas says it wants to hire in Asia and North America. In particular, it wants to bolster its high yield team and “develop business with large corporates and institutional clients".

8. Coming jobs at Deutsche Bank:

9. Coming jobs at the European Central Bank:

Who's the ECB hiring? The ECB is still hiring a crazy number (1,000) of new regulatory staff. 75% of them will focus on bank supervision.

10. Coming jobs at Goldman Sachs:

Who's Goldman Sachs hiring? Goldman Sachs hasn't explicitly committed to hiring anyone in the front office. It's trying to hike its return on equity and is focused on keeping costs down. However, it told us it's hiring strategically for its office in Salt Lake City, where it has 1,800 employees. There may be some rather more dramatic growth at Goldman in Bangalore, where the firm has space for 10,000 employees.

11. Coming banking jobs at Jefferies:

Who's Jefferies hiring? The Wall Street Journal reports that Jefferies will be hiring investment bankers for South East Asia.

12. Coming jobs at Lazarus Partnership:

Who's Lazarus hiring? Lazarus is a new London-based equity research boutique set up by the former chief executive of Oriel Securities. It's hiring equity researchers.

13. Coming banking jobs at Lloyds Commercial Bank:

Who's Lloyds Commercial Bank hiring? Lloyds insists that it's not really adding people in its investment bank (and is losing staff as fast as it's adding them). However, it seems to be busy recruiting for its London-based debt capital markets business.

16. Coming jobs at Millennium Capital Partners:

17. Coming banking jobs at Nomura:

Who's Nomura hiring? We don't know for sure, but it seems likely that Nomura will continue to opportunistically build its sales and trading business with disgruntled staff from other firms (RBS especially). It's just hired Rob Maher from Credit Suisse to head its electronic execution business. Maher is likely to bring ex-CS colleagues across. Nomura is also said to be hiring for its UK investment banking team.

19. Coming jobs at Pamplona Capital Management:

20. Coming banking jobs at SocGen CIB:

Who's SocGen hiring? SocGen will be hiring for DCM in Asia and for its energy and natural resources business in South East Asia. The French bank is also looking to build its fixed income sales and trading business, for which it reportedly wants to 150 people in the US and Asia.

21. Coming jobs at UBS:

Who's UBS hiring? UBS is mostly hiring senior M&A bankers. It wants to recruit 24 of them over the next two years. It's also expressed an interest in expanding its US equities business.

22. Coming jobs at Wells Fargo Securities:

Who's Wells hiring? Wells Fargo has long been building its European investment banking business. It's currently hiring in both high yield and M&A.